How to format your references using the GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Yamamoto, Y. (2000). Semiconductor physics. Half-matter, half-light amplifier. Nature, 405(6787), 629–630.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, L. E., & Bargh, J. A. (2008). Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5901), 606–607.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nykypanchuk, D., Strey, H. H., & Hoagland, D. A. (2002). Brownian motion of DNA confined within a two-dimensional array. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5583), 987–990.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Uchiyama, Y., Aharonian, F. A., Tanaka, T., Takahashi, T., & Maeda, Y. (2007). Extremely fast acceleration of cosmic rays in a supernova remnant. Nature, 449(7162), 576–578.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Frank, P., & Ottoboni, M. A. (2011). The Dose Makes the Poison. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jameson, J. H., & Eogan, J. (Eds.). (2013). Training and Practice for Modern Day Archaeologists (Vol. 1). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Duncan, N., & Bowman, B. (2009). Liberating South African Psychology: The Legacy of Racism and the Pursuit of Representative Knowledge Production. In C. C. Sonn & M. Montero (Eds.), Psychology of Liberation: Theory and Applications (pp. 93–113). Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 13). Mysterious Signal Detected- Could It Be From Dark Matter? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-signal-detected-could-it-be-dark-matter/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2014). Special Education: Improved Performance Measures Could Enhance Oversight of Dispute Resolution (GAO-14-390). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Do, N. H. (2012). An examination of support systems to enable Vietnamese immigrants to acquire English skills [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Vecsey, G. (2010, August 26). Campus Kickoffs: Don’t Think Too Hard. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Yamamoto, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Williams & Bargh, 2008; Yamamoto, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Williams & Bargh, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Uchiyama et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry
Abbreviation	GeroPsych (Bern)
ISSN (print)	1662-9647
ISSN (online)	1662-971X
Scope	Geriatrics and Gerontology Gerontology